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Offline Sanguine

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Keeping the Past Private
« on: July 03, 2016, 05:19:44 pm »
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July 2, 2016 4:59 am

On July 2, 1985, a 23-year-old woman named Mary Martha Michelson began screaming at a convenience-store clerk in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. She’d dashed in to buy some beer, leaving her pocketbook in the car, and when the clerk demanded proof of age, she became unhinged: screeching obscenities, sweeping the counter clear of its magazine and chewing-tobacco displays, and storming out—only to run straight into a Montgomery County deputy sheriff, on his way in to buy a cup of coffee. After a little conversation and some calming down, Mary Martha apologized to the clerk and was allowed to go her way.

On July 2, 2015, exactly 30 years later, a 16-year-old named Michael Joseph Calford, just a few weeks after receiving his driver’s license, decided to stop at a gas station on the outskirts of Ogden, Utah. When the ratchet wouldn’t hold the pump handle open, he jammed a small stick into the hand grip and walked into the station to buy a pack of gum. Fortunately, the stick held. Unfortunately, the nozzle popped out of his gas tank, the rubber hose writhing like an injured snake as it sprayed gasoline across the station. Across Michael Joseph himself, for that matter, when he slipped on the wet asphalt as he came running out to shut off the pump. Eventually, he managed to wrestle down the thrashing pump handle, but he had to pay for all the wasted gas—and, two weeks later, he received in the mail a ticket from the Weber County courthouse, fining him for spilling a prohibited substance into gutters that emptied into the local storm sewers....

http://freebeacon.com/culture/hidden-memories/

A very thought provoking review.
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Re: Keeping the Past Private
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2016, 05:54:52 pm »
Good review. The whole topic is worth discussing in detail for that matter.
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Re: Keeping the Past Private
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2016, 07:47:00 pm »
I don't think the past should be private. Especially a persons criminal history. You want to keep something private, how about your sexual orientation and activities.
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Re: Keeping the Past Private
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2016, 07:28:43 pm »
Never forget... cameras are everywhere, and once it's in The Matrix, it's out there.

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Re: Keeping the Past Private
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2016, 07:37:08 pm »
Quote from: geronl on July 03, 2016, 07:47:00 pm
I don't think the past should be private. Especially a persons criminal history. You want to keep something private, how about your sexual orientation and activities.

@geronl, I should have answered this days ago. 

I do think one's past should be private, with the exception of adult criminal history, and things deemed "public information", such as real properties owned or legal actions like divorces and bankruptcies. Why should anyone have a right to know anything about you or me that we don't chose to share with them?
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